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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "Bush's War on Cops," Washington Monthly, September 2003 (washingtonmonthly.com)
Under the Clinton administration, the federal government financially supported local law enforcement at an unprecedented level. More than 70,000 police officers were hired with federal dollars and, perhaps more importantly, the federal government began supporting efforts to upgrade technology and rethink policing strategies. Under President Bush, many of these policies have been reversed. Federal grant funding for local police has fallen significantly. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, an editor of Washington Monthly, claims that police agencies like Richmond, Virginia's, which he visited, don't have the resources to ...